Topeka, Kansas is uniquely positioned to support a wide variety of industries. From professional and financial services to food processing, Topeka and Shawnee County have the resources to help your company thrive.

The Topeka/Shawnee County Small Business Incentive is a matching incentive program that offers small businesses assistance in the areas of employee skills upgrades, equipment purchases and facility construction and renovation.

GO Topeka in partnership with Washburn University and Crimson Corporation formed the Center for Organizational Excellence that offers quality education and consultation services to organizations of all sizes.

The State of Education provides the opportunity to communicate with the community on education. This year, the Greater Topeka Partnership will focus on the efforts in the cradle through career initiative, TogetherTopeka.

Workforce Talent

Every attempt has been made to provide current, accurate, and consistent data in this database. There may be some differences due to sources, methodologies, or timing of data-assembly.

October 2017 Labor Report

TOPEKA, Kan. – Preliminary estimates reported by the Kansas Department of Labor (KDOL) and Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) show a seasonally adjusted unemployment rate of 3.6 percent in October. This was up from 3.8 percent in September and down from 4.3 percent in October 2016.

“In October, 3,383 additional Kansans became employed,” said Kansas Secretary of Labor, Lana Gordon. “This grew the labor force and factored into the unemployment rate dropping to 3.6 percent, the lowest it has been since August 200.”

Seasonally adjusted job estimates indicate total Kansas nonfarm jobs decreased by 1,700 from September. Private sector jobs, a subset of total nonfarm jobs, increased by 1,700 from the previous month.

“The net change for total nonfarm job estimates in October was relatively small, decreasing by 0.1 percent over the month,” said Labor Economist Emilie Doerksen. “One industry contributing to this loss was retail trade. Following national trends, retailers in Kansas hired fewer seasonal workers than expected in October.”